1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) :

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index

Includes filmography: pages 185-199

Sec. 1. A foreward on the generic context: The cartoon-making technique -- The cartoon before Tex. -- Sec. 2. The uniqueness of Text Avery's testimony: Tex Avery's Americanness: an attempt to retrieve the past -- Facing contemporary politics -- Tex Avery's unique viewpoint on good, evil, and morality. -- Sec. 3 On sex and gender: Freundian pansexualism: concepts of activity / passivity -- Reduction of womanhood into two types: The destructive power of women -- Oedipal relationships and their consequences -- Sec. 4. Tex Avery's unique comic strategies: The burlesque heritage -- Towards a pragmatic relation with the audience -- The provisional nature of the Averian universe -- Conclusion

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